You cannot always please children just by buying them a slew of gums or toys. Sometimes you have to do something different and totally unexpected to amuse your kids bored of day to day routines and activities. Again, you need not to be too extravagant or extra intelligent to do something new. All you need to do is to make use of everyday items and turn them into a source of entertainment for your children. Easy to do Crafts for Kids: Following lines explain some interesting and easy to do … [Read more...]
Disney’s Planes Coloring Pages and Dot to Dot
Are your kids so excited for the new Disney movie Planes? Mine are!! Help get your kids familiar with the characters by printing out these fun colors pages and dot to dots! … [Read more...]
Ride Along Dolly Review
My daughter got a special doll for Christmas. She takes this doll, named Audry, most places she goes. She has asked to take Audry outside but I have always said no. I don't want the doll to get hurt or lost.This week we were lucky enough to received the Rider Along Dolly bike seat. Now she can take Audry outside for some exercise when she goes out to ride her bike. The first step to getting your bike seat ready is to decorate it with the provided stickers.Installing it on the bike is … [Read more...]
DIY Refrigerator Art Projects
When you want to make sure that your kids stay entertained and when you would love to get art that is a little more personal from your kids on the fridge, why not have a fridge art day?Air-Dry Clay MagnetsMaterials:Polymer Clay Acrylic Paints Paint brushes Imagination Small Refrigerator Magnets Hot Glue GunWhen your little ones love to work with their hands, give them a chance to do so with a little bit of air-dry clay.Pinch off a small amount of clay, about … [Read more...]
Crafts That You Can Easily Do With Your Kids
Winter is usually especially hard for me. Being cooped up indoors with my two little ones every day I become tired rather quickly. Running out of entertainment ideas the first two weeks of cold weather, I vowed this year would be different. Finding fun crafts that my kids can easily do was my top priority.Purely CrayonUpside-down drawing. Tape a large piece of paper under your kitchen table and let the kids color with every color of crayon. Once the masterpiece is complete, hang it up … [Read more...]
Chobani Champions Tubes Review and Giveaway
I had never tried Chobani yogurt before last week when they sent me four boxes of their new Champions Yogurt tubes to try out. We LOVE yogurt tubes at our house. They are an easy, portable and healthy snack! My kids were so excited to try out these new yogurt tubes and so was I!We flavor tested:Blueberry Strawberry, Strawberry Banana CherryThe happy consensus was that we loved all the flavors (which was amazing since my kids hate other brands cherry yogurt)! This is the best … [Read more...]
Artzooka! Craft Kits from Wooky Entertainment
Key to the Artzooka! line are traditional arts & crafts play patterns — “finding the artist within” and “not keeping it within the frame” — for children 5 and up. Each kit includes a “craft challenge” for kids to complete with materials commonly found at home along with step-by-step directions written in clear, age-appropriate language with corresponding images to ensure project success. Some of the kits also are accompanied by instructional DVDs with easy-to-follow demonstrations, video … [Read more...]
Too Much Technology and Toddlers – What can Go Wrong
Mobile phones, android tablets, laptop computers, game consoles. We cannot deny the fact that technology is moving so fast. Every month, the major players in the gadget industry release their new models. And to be able to make huge sales, they proactively market their new products using advertisements which cost thousands of dollars. These advertisements are so effective, a lot of toddlers would throw tantrums so they can get a new gadget for themselves. Since parents would naturally love to … [Read more...]
Shrinky Dinks I Heart You Cards Review and Giveaway
By now you can tell my kids love to do crafts! The I Heart You cards with Shrinky Dinks from Creativity for Kids was no exception! My husband was super excited for the kids to use the Shrinky Dinks. He insists that as a child of the 80's I should know all about them. Apparently they were huge then and he used them as a kid. I had no idea what he was talking about so the kids and I learned about them together.Shrinky Dinks are a special vellum paper that when heated up shrinks to make hard … [Read more...]
Kidaroo Crew Sippy Cup Labels
Right now at our house we don't have a need to label our sippy cups. We just have one girl and one boy using them. But in a couple months, we will have another boy using our sippy cups and then these Kidaroo Crew Sippy Cup Labels will be vital! Kidaroo Crew offers several different kinds of custom sippy cup labels. They have Snugaroos, which are customizable with your child's name. They also feature fun themes like sports or glamor! Then they have the Sippy Grab labels which also come in … [Read more...]
Take Apart Helicopter Review
I have a 3 year old son that likes to bang and build, take things apart and put them back together. He is an engineer, just like his daddy! With all those character traits it made the Take Apart Helicopter the perfect toy for him!The Take Apart Helicopter is from the construction sets series of toys from Educational Toys Planet. This toy comes with 20 pieces and a screw driver that enables you to take the helicopter apart and build itagain. My son was in heaven having a real helicopter to … [Read more...]
Kids’ Activities in the Snow
The prospect of snow is exciting for all children and with the first snow of winter 2012/13 arriving in the UK last week, kids have been desperate to go out and enjoy what is somewhat of a rarity. Here I will suggest a few activities which can be enjoyed by children of all ages to help make sure no one misses out on the fun!Snowball FightsArguably the first thing which springs to every child’s mind when they see snow is to have a snowball fight. While this is always fun, as long as … [Read more...]
Lovable Labels Review
Having kids means you have to label everything. When school starts and you send your bags and bags of school supplies into the classroom they all have to be labeled. Then there is also lunch boxes, water bottles, folders and all sorts of other items that need names. Usually we just use a marker to write our kids names on everything, but now with Lovable Labels we can stick a cute sticker to everything that needs a name! Check out some of the cute designs … [Read more...]
Quick Christmas Crafts
This week we all were sick so we had a couple sick days and a we had a snow day. Needless to say I had some time to kill with the kids! Luckily I also have some random crafty things hanging around the house so we were able to come up with a couple fun activities.First we made Santa hats. This is super easy, all you need is red construction paper,cotton balls and glue. Since our refrigerator isn't magnetic we decided to hang … [Read more...]
Time to Make the Gingerbread House! Psych!
Every year at Christmas, we make a gingerbread house. This year, when I bought our kit, I was rushing. 2 weeks later, when I pulled it from the cabinet for the kids to work on it, I figured out it wasn't gingerbread! It was chocolate! At first, I was disappointed, but really, it was SO much better! Sometimes the fact that I'm an airhead works out to my advantage!So in this kit, it gives you the milk chocolate to melt and then you pour it into the molds to make the sides and roof. Then you … [Read more...]
